View Full Version : Old black&white shelter photos 1930's & 40s
Dutch Roth's old black&white shelter photos (http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?q1=Structures+--+Shelters&rgn1=Subject%20Headings&type=boolean&view=thumbnail&c=rth;g=gsmc)1930's & 40s
Great pics; thanks for sharing
Egads
BackTrack1
04-15-2008, 07:08
very cool, thanks man.
naturejunkie
04-15-2008, 08:44
Awesome pics! They give a great sense of the history of the trail.
Tipi Walter
04-15-2008, 08:55
The Cable Gap Shelter sort of blew me away. First, the fence going across the campsite and the foot stile thingie. Biggest shock was the picnic group sitting at a table meaning there must've been a road to the place. Were all shelters built using road access?
SGT Rock
04-15-2008, 09:19
That is cool.
Blissful
04-15-2008, 12:12
Fascinating stuff.
The Solemates
04-15-2008, 12:43
those are awesome. does anyone know if there is a way to purchase one? id like to hang one in my bathroom...
Hikerhead
04-15-2008, 13:07
The Cable Gap Shelter sort of blew me away. First, the fence going across the campsite and the foot stile thingie. Biggest shock was the picnic group sitting at a table meaning there must've been a road to the place. Were all shelters built using road access?
I thought the same thing....looks a lot different now but it was 10pm at night when me and J5MAN walked by it. And woke up a hiker sleeping in it while we stood at the front asking who would leave their pack hanging in the shelter..I said maybe he was at the privy..then we looked down and saw a hairy face and two eyeballs looking up at us...it was funny. Yeah, most of the shelters have a road or did have a road somewhere close by...most are out of sight. This relates to the ones I've seen anyway...haven't been to all of them.
Hikes in Rain
04-15-2008, 19:41
What I found fascinating is that the ones in the Smokies were log construction back then. They're stone now, and look pretty old (the walls, anyway, which I thought were the original before they were remodeled. When did they change? I was under the assumption (don't even know why) that the CCC built them out of stone.
Love the black and white images. Makes me want to get some B&W film out for this time of year when there aren't a lot of vivid colors anyway.
Very Interesting!
shelterbuilder
04-15-2008, 21:54
Great stuff!!! I love pics of any shelter construction, but the "1st generation" shelters are especially beautiful. Log work from the first half of the 20th century is tough to beat for rustic appeal.
Ramble~On
04-15-2008, 22:10
These are great!
I like the clothes they're hiking in- :eek: all that snow and they didn't have Gore-Tex back then!